Water motor



G. JORGENSON.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1.3, 192i.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

S H E E T l G. JORGENSON.

WATER MOTOR.

. APPLICATION FILED MAY 13. 1921. 1,425,487. Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

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G. JORGENSON.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1921.

1,425,487, Patented 8, 1922.

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7 072/ Geo; e Jbrge zs a the invention n r u a oi GEORGE JOBGENSON, OE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA.

YVATER MOTOR.

Application filed May 13,

T (/1 710m at in my (-012 from lie it known that I. Gnoncr. Jononnsox, a citizen the United .States, residing at l:arg in the county of Cass and State of North Dakota, have invented new and useful improvements in li ater lilotors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved water or wind wheel, the general object of ring to form the wings of the wheel of a. plurality of hinged gates or doors so arr nged that they will be closed when the n lug is moving in the same direction a the propelling current of water or and w l open when the wing is moving 'ainst said current.

Another object of the invention .is to arwe the gates in rows with the rows beanger. at an incline so as to give the WIRES or blades of the wheel a spiral effect.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts. to be hereinafter fully described illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

in describing my invention in detail, refcrence will he had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the sev eral views, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the invention. Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Figure 3 is a cross section.

Figure t is a cross sectional view showing the braces.

Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Figure 3.

Figure 6 is a detail view showing the means for connecting the door with its hinged rod.

Figure 7 is a view taken at right angles to Figure 6.

Figure 8 is a detail sectional view show ing the manner of securing the brace blocks between the longitudinally extending strips.

In these views 1 indicates the shaft of the wheel which has its ends provided with t-runnions 2 which are supported in bearings in the uprights 3. The ends 4 of the wheel are suitably secured to the ends of the shaft and longitudinally extending strips 5 have their ends secured to the end pieces 4. These strips are inclinedly arranged as shown.

These strips are arranged in groups, each Specification of Letters Patent.

1921. Serial No. 469,293.

group consisting of three strips, the front strip 5 being spaced from the center strip which abuts the rear strip. Each front strip 5 supports the outer cnos of a row of posts 6 which are spaced apart and have their front edges lJGYQlQCl, as shown. Each of the rear strips supports the outer ends of a row of posts 6 which have their inner ends supported by the shaft. The posts 6 are each provided with spaced enlargements 7 which are beveled as shown, the portions of the pos;s between the enlargements being of slight-thickness. The formation of the front and rear posts enables the wheel to pass through the water with but slight resistance on the part of the post. As shown in Figure 5 the rear posts are arranged behind every alternate front post and each set of front and rear posts diverge outwardly from the shaft, as shown in Figures 3 and 4.

The doors or gates 8 are hingedly secured to the wheel by the rods 9 which have their inner ends engaging holes lormed in shaft 1 and their outer ends are hooked and engage the strips 5 and are secured to the strips by the staples 6*. A pair of rods 9 is located directly behind each alternate post 6, as shown in Figure 5 and the doors are of such 7 a width that they will engage a post 6 between each pair of posts behind which the hinge rods are located so as to hold the doors in fully open position and when said doors are in open position they will engage the rear posts 6 as shown at the left in Figure 5. As the edges of the doors engage the enlargements 7 the water can pass through the spaces between the enlargements. I also place blocks 5 between thefront strips 5" and the middle strips, said blocks being bolted to the strips, as shown at 5 and said blocks are grooved to receive portions of the hinge rods.

T may provide braces 13, for each double row of posts, these braces comprising the wide parts 14: which are secured to the inclined faces of the posts 6 and to the shaft and the narrow parts 15 which are connected to the posts 6 and to the rear strips 5 by the rightangular extensions 16. The two parts 14 and 15 are connected together at their inner portions, as clearly shown in derstood that it can be used as a wind wheel. by placing it in a vertlcal position.

From the above it W111 be apparent that when the wings, formed by the doors and posts, are traveling with the propelling current of air or water they will be closed and thus expose the maximum surface to the current. But when they are traveling in an op posite direction from the current the doors will be opened so as to offer the least resistance to the passage of the wing through the peripheries ofthe end pieces and arranged in groupsrtwo rows of posts extending between the shaft and the strips of each "group and hinged doors for closing the spaces between the posts of the front row and arranged to contact with the posts of the rear row when in open position.

A wheel of the class described comprising a shaft, endpleces carried thereby, longitudinally extending strips secured to the peripheries of the end pieces and arranged ing a shaft, end pieces secured thereto, longitudn'ially arrangedstrips secured to the peripheries of the end pieces and arranged in sets, two rows of posts'extending between the shaft and the strips of each set, a pair of hinge rods located in rear of each alternate post of each of the front rows, a pair of doors hinged to each pair of rods, said doors closing the spaces between the front row of posts and having their opening movements limited by the rear row of posts, the parts of the front row having their front edges beveled and the parts of the rear row havingspaced enlargements thereon which are also beveled.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

"GEORGE J ORGENSON. 

